, 1887-09-08
Pickings-

The population of the United
States is now estimated at 81, ,000, 600.
A Texas woman has a pet alligator
that wags his tail when his name is
called.
A cigarette smoker can not obtain
admission to the Naval or the Mill
tary Academy.
They make a wine of tomatoes in
in Florida which is said to be super-
ior to orange wine.
Self possession in a young woman
is well enough for a while, but she
should not keep it up too long.
The man who cannot make his in
fuence felt in this world is of less
importance than a common water
melon.
A telegraph wire stretched around
the earth at the equator would weigh
5O.000.000 pounds while less than one
pound of certain spider web would
be required.
Visitor Ito boodler in penitentiary)
-"You realize now, my friend, what
it is to have gone wroDgw Boodler
(bitterly)-"I do, indeed, sir.
should have gone to Canada. Then
I would have gone right"
Gen. Fairchild says that the recent
denuneiation of the G.. A. r. has
helped its growth, its membership
having increased during the last
quarter by over $4,000. The G.. A. r.
hos expended in benevolent work
during the last year over S250,000.
An exchange says: Never judge
by appearance. A old shabby coat
may be an editor. while the man
wearing high toned plug hat and
sporting dude cane may be de.
linquent subscriber or advertiser.
An Iowa youth was holding his
girl on his lap during a thunder
storm. The Tightening struck and
killed the youth, while the girl was
left unharmed. We hope this will
teach the young women that the
safsst plan during thunder storm
is in fellows lap.-Lowell Citizen.
The republicans are looming up
Justify in the old bourbon Democratic
state of Kentucky. They made a
gain of ten members in the next leg
islature. There is as much chance
that the state will go republican in
next years election as there is that
Washington Territory will go demo.
cratic.
Last week syndicate of timber
land owners disposed of large body
of timber near the shores of Hoods
canal for $11 an acre. A capitalist
of Ithaca, New York, was the pur-
chaser The timber of Washington
territory is beginning to attract the
attention it deserves from eastern
timbermen, and those owning good
lands will be able to get good prices
for the same hereafter.
''Take your hair invigorator money
and buy a town lot in q growing
town that supports its home paper
and advertises and goes ahead. and
you will be well fixed, and man
who is well fixed don't care much
whether he has any hair or not"
Thus talks Bill Nye in his lengthy
advice to bald headed man. There
is heap of sense in these few lines.
covered with vein of humor.
] have said repeatedly that We can
raise and pick blackberries at a cost
OF two cents pound, and, in fact.
think it can be done for less. We
can surely raise two tons to tho acre,
and think ut four cents, or at q pro
tit OF $50 per acre. these berries can
either be canned at profit or sold to
Gamers in practically unlimited
quantities. So we see there are 9TH
er crops besides hops that will nav
as special crop. Stewart, at Puy
aliup, raised over two tons of rasp-
berries to the acre and see no rea-
son why we may not raise even more
of currants and as many gooseberries
as either of the two mentioned.-E
Meeker.
The local newspapers in the Puget
Sound region of Washington Terri
tory publish reports which shoa the
lumber business to be animated by a
general boom. In maiy cases vessels
cannot be secured As rapidly as car
goes are made ready. and foreign
contracts interfere with supplying an
active local demand. Mills are run.
ming to the extent of their reasonable
capacity, and on full time, the large
ones being specially busy. In re-
sponse to this favorable state of de-
mand. which is becoming difficult to
meet, prices have advanced from the
stump to the dock Luburers in the
logging camps now get from $50 to
sl5O month aud found. logs bring